12.18 Operating System Installation

OpenClinica Enterprise is available either via a cloud hosted solution or a self hosted and managed system. The base supported platform for self hosted customers is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5 or above. RHEL is a commercially supported operating system and recommended for enterprise customers. CentOS is a free rebuild for RHEL without commercial support and is available at http://centos.org. For either, we highly recommend using the 64-bit version for best performance if your hardware is capable of supporting that architecture.

As an alternative in CentOS, you can download the minimal installation image at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOSMinimalCD6.0. If you choose to download the minimal image, please note that the following core packages must be installed on the system for the OpenClinica installation and maintenance.